The little girl watches the other little girls tongue kiss and she wonders what other little girls taste like, do they taste like her, like the way mothballs smells, what does that mean that she tastes that way. When she gets older other little girls will wonder why she smells that way, too, as if her outside skin smells the way moths' inside skin smells like, all dust and garbage.
The little girl wonders what this means to smell of dust and garbage, how this means that the ocean is filled with moth corpses when they went swimming, the saw so many insect corpses that they could not swim anymore, she was afraid of the insect corpses in her bathing suit laying eggs in her brand new pubic hair that she shaved when it first came in because it made her uncomfortable and she shaved with a dry razor and it hurt so bad she had to wear a maxi pad all week when she didn't even really know what a maxi pad did for anyone.
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